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And tonight. We start with the latest figures on the coded 900 pandemic more than 2100000 cases have been registered now worldwide and 147000 lives have been lost the United States has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far more than 550000 people have recovered from the virus globally. Lets turn 1st to russia which has seen a sharp rise in corona virus cases with 4000. 00 infections registered over just the past 24 hours it brings the total in the country 232000 with 2 173. 00 fatal disease the president has postponed the annual victory parade on red square which is due to take place on may 9th they say Vladimir Putin said that the pandemic has made preparations impossible. Were facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every Single Person is priceless too to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now but the risks posed by the epidemic as well as its peak which we have imposed is still high thats why i cannot start the rehearsals for the parade under the public gatherings the president went on to say that the parade will go ahead later in the year its been an annual event in moscow since 1995 attended by World Leaders and veterans of the war since 2012 russia and many other countries around the world of holt immortal regiment commemorations on the same day they were to honor the relatives of those who fought in the war on t. Senior correspondent frank as they have looked to the importance of the event. The 75th anniversary of hitlers defeat the destruction of the nazi abomination at the price of tens of millions of lives a few short months ago the very idea of pursuing commemorations the parade the march of the immortal regiment would have been unthinkable to so Many Russians this is the biggest day of the year a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of the generation that stopped hitler and for which they are ordered every year. The Diamond Jubilee this years parade and commemorations were to be truly grand leaders from all over the world had been invited it was a global sacrifice in part the scale of the commemorations is supposed to remind us all of how many. Well last a catastrophe never to be repeated most russians have relatives a grandmother or grandfather who died in that war yet through their children every year they march again in victory. Veterans to the precious few left those who remember the horrors and agony of the 2nd world war this was supposed to be their day indians to the still we were waiting for liberation hope saved us we kept holding on to the end my clearest memories are from when the soviet army came to liberate us it was very moving we never thought wed survive but life is life the pandemic caught us all off guard thats when scoops were among those that came out and called for the paraded commemorations to be pursued as it became clear the infection wouldnt spare russia reason conscious prevailed the parade will still happen when its safe the heroes of the greatest generation will still be on the 9th of may there are already plenty of ideas from online immortal regiment marches to shoes but for now and for the 1st time in a quarter of a century the stands on the red square will remain empty and the veterans will stay at home at home but on and in the hearts and minds of the world we have one journalist neil clark and historian mike jones about the significance of postponing the parade. Just at the end of the street this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory in world war 2 and its had the perspective which is very very sad indeed because i think that this was an event that would have pull people together not just people in russia but around the world to mark this commemoration and it just shows you whats happening in 2020 it seems that weve had a whole list of events now weve lost the olympics weve lost the european football championships the last major sporting events and now weve lost this so i think its very sad it is not just about the spread of the condom a consortium about the risks to the participants on the program particularly the overly hurts her im down it would be there were big hurry through to perth that turns who survived the most corrosion of fighting in world war 2 risk in the pariah so i think it reflects the seriousness of the part that make producer marks how much russia and russia of god church the lives of the surviving draft terms of the great country under one. Runs has europes highest death toll from covert 99 standing in almost 800000 but the number of new delhi cases has been in decline for several days as the micros now calling for schools to reopen by midnight but many teachers think that needs premature shall do be secure the ports. Schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president not growing prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a School Environment to enforce social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the School Environment how does it no longer carry the same risks while the federation of french doctors says its worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and its premise sure children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems sharper perhaps given that almost in the same breath not core announced its restaurants bars cinemas in museums would not be reopening until further notice thats left some teachers groups reeling. Who are we going to return with Young Children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the School Cafeteria is a crammed with 500 people inside its completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people yet at the same time open a school with some 5021500 students one of macros given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality phone that amount only to many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of School Without access to digital tools. Since schools closed in more teachers have been educating their students online they have been Public Television Services Broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the Education Minister genre show blanca recently advised that they should take a break the easter holidays the one Teaching Union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being 1st in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big Childcare Service so that mom and dad can go back to work thats also the belief of the teaching collective the red pens. This is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more Important Health is more important than the economy. The red pens also say there needs to be a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the pupils too. What were waiting for is a more viable situation mass testing including immunity tests masks in large quantities and although i wont be ready in 26. 00 days its impossible a full plan hasnt yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question thats according to frances Education Minister shore michel but for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get face masks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and if as longer says the return will not be obligatory how can the government be sure that the most deprived 2 students well actually come back to the classroom show but even ski arty paris. One in 3 sailors on board a french Aircraft Carrier have tested positive for covert 9668. 00 people out of almost 2000 on board the shuttle de gaulle which is currently docked of the countrys south coast and is not the only one to watch it to suffer such an outbreak. Thats what the risk to sailors lies the nato secretary general believes that the real danger lies elsewhere and stoltenberg is accused of the 70s leading russia of trying to exploit the pandemic the security challenges have not diminished because of call the 19 on the contrary potential adversaries will look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued pace of Russian Military activity all were operational readiness remains diminished. All forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirtys we spoke to a retired u. S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel who thinks that france should have learned from americas recent experience of an on board how break the group that is most sickened by this is not normally age group of soldiers or. Servicemen so you know its not that dangerous procedure like in terms of life and death but in terms of our Operational Capability yet bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well hed like to think that social distancing and things like that that work with those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship but i actually am surprised that the navy doesnt seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago it see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems a little too little too late. Farming sectors in the grip of a staffing crisis through to the pandemic and hundreds of workers are being flown in from romania to cover the shortfall in sheer the u. K. Needs around 90000 Seasonal Workers in order to harvest fruit and vegetables but has received only 5 and a half 1000 applications this year most of those from within the country most of the applicants as well have no experience of farming Patrick Holden from the Sustainable Foods trust says that the industry cannot function without foreign labor. The farmers definitely would like the remaining to come and indeed theyd be coming here for quite a few years now in the same way that all the Eastern European countries also provided the workforce to harvest all vegetables in relation to what is being called essential work because there is a case for. People who have specific skills. Travelling in order to undertake this essential work and i would argue that people harvesting vegetables and fruit and doing cultural work are highly skilled people im probably should be allowed to travel the best workers we ever had came from Eastern Europe and they had a fantastic work ethic and they were highly skilled and they had a really positive asked suit but there are many workers being brought to the you count charter flight the company arranging the transport haitian has said that the passengers will have their temperatures checked and observe social distancing there are no plans to test them for curved 19 hold in the game says that its unlikely the farm workers will pose an infection risk. The fear should be the other way around this more likely probably for a group like the group which the United Kingdom contracts in the virus the other way around the super safe once the provision for testing becomes more widely available one way of insuring against the risk of transmission between countries would be to have a positive release system where the workers were tested to cope it before they returned personally i would much as i said this cross at risk of transmission especially in rural areas. And employment in america is at its worst level since the Great Depression yet some 1000000000 as are doing better than ever story angle to the press. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and ill be speaking to us on the world of politics or business im sure business ill see you there. Welcome back to the United States has recorded 34000 fatalities from covert 19 and economic shock that is being felt nationwide a total of 22000000 job claims have been far since lockdown measures were introduced but while many families have been left with no income whatsoever the countrys richest man has seen his net worth skyrocket killer more than explains. Jeff bezos was already the worlds richest man before the pandemic yet with everyone staying at home he is now roughly 24000000000. 00 richer his wife has seen her net worth vastly increase as well and at this point amazon has reached an all time high and it stocks on tuesday valued at market over 1. 00 trillion 1. 01 thing weve learned from the kovac 900. 00 crisis is how important amazon has become to customize we want you to know we take this responsibility seriously and were proud of the work our teams are doing to help customers through this difficult time business is booming 75000 new employees and amazon warehouses are being hired in addition to the 100000 that were hired over the past month they are called heroes by amazon as they take a great risk of exposure in order to bring in bays owes billions. Right now delivering the things people need has never been more important. To all of our hamazon retail heroes will continue to do everything ok and. Healthy safe and protected many say that amazon has not been working to protect its heroes the company has been slow in working to ease its paid sick leave rules and its been behind on providing personal protective equipment and social distancing on its facilities a report suggests that as many as 74 amazon employees have been infected while on the job and beginning of march i seen some ploy become sick around me in a domino effect some to look for tea they would dizzy some of them in that their stations they couldnt finish due to doubt we shipped there was very alarming is very scary we only been protective start april so that doesnt really help the situation i mean may help slow down but the virus started spreading already the virus been. Around for a few months in a country as been in these buildings for a few months and were just now starting to p. P. Base so mask in the glove that we need it in the beginning. Its a late in the game and its already multiple cases and multiple build is. Employees who speak up publicly about these issues are getting fired 3 more employees of had their contracts terminated instead of firing employees who want justice maybe jeff bezos the richest man in the world can focus on providing his workers with paid sick leave a safe workplace and a livable planet amazon insists its putting proper Safety Measures in place the u. S. Federal reserve seems to be concerned about the safety of amazon as well amazons shareholders that is theyve been pushing the stock price higher and higher the combined net worth of the 500. 00 richest people in the world has increased by 20 percent since its low on march 23rd in line musk bill gates Warren Buffett Mark Zuckerberg among others are the real winners of the pandemic meanwhile 22000000 americans are newly unemployed these billionaires capitalizing on coronavirus to capitalize in the expense of a workforce that capitalizing on. Human life is a life or death situation in. The way these policies are made your work or your workers on the front lines have to continue to go to work in order to pay their bills or stay home and be unpaid and its not its not right its not fair its blood money thats what i call the money thats being made by the billionaires for the entire time dependent is in this country our of even all around the globe is blood money this is greed is nothing more than just greed in though they should have been using this money to help out the medical field said aletta lead this virus spread is not provide testing for their workforce. Meanwhile the coronavirus pandemic has revealed severe shortages of medical supplies in some of the worlds most developed countries they lack of ventilators a musk says but thousands of lives at risk on his or mine culture of looks at how the prob. As being tackled here in russia. Artificial ventilation operad us or mechanical ventilation systems are essential when a patient reaches a critical stage still the machine requires a lot of consumables something that many hospitals around the world lack russias iraqs saddam and its subsidiaries decided to prepare for similar scenarios at home. Which. That is what is so why did we start to produce it a week ago there was high demand for vows like these in europe and especially in italy when the number of patients dramatically increased im talking about patients who need mechanical ventilation apparatus private companies and its and he started printing 3 d. Models of the valves we decided not to wait for such a problem in russia we have enough power reserves to produce up to 5000 of the vows if there is demand to get more materials and we will be able to produce tens of thousands of them to supply many medical institutions its akin to a more than 2 hours to friend said these in 2 or valves well before they get taken to a customer i have to do one more thing. Put them in a solution. And now they are ready to be delivered to various officers he is and they cant go ventilation systems this 3 d. Printing lab doesnt limit themselves to producing valves for mechanical ventilation systems theyre also making other elements that are now in high demand but interested it interested me in particular were simple things for everyday life Something Like this guess what if this is for this is to press an elevator button to go like that and some other things like this one for example what do you think this is for well this is to open the door if you dont want to touch anything and of course i think this particular engineer was a little bit bored he created Som